Cleaner for rifles and shotguns.



PATENTED MAY 22. 1906.

B. E. S. STOGKER.

CLEANER FOR RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 1905.

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CLEANER FOR RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1906.

Application filed June '7, 1905- Serial No. 264,049.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BASIL EDWARD SEY- MOUR STOCKER, a subject of theKing of Great Britain, residin at Wellington, in the Colony of NewZealan ,have invented a new and useful Cleaner for Rifles and Shotguns;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same.

This invention relates to an improved construction of appliance for usein cleaning the barrels of rifles, shotguns, and the like.

The appliance devised consists, essentially, of a length of thinflexible wire rope of sullicient rigidity to allow of it being pushedthrough the barrel of a rifle or shotgun, and which rope is attached toone end of a short metal bar, the other end of which carries a brush ora mop or an eye or other contrivance for holding patches or rags. Thebar and rope must be slender enough to pass easily through the barrel ofthe rifle, and the rope shouldbe somewhat longer than the barrel.

Though the eye to carry the cleaning material should ordinarily be madein the short bar that terminates the wire rope, it is found moreconvenient in the case of a brush to interpose a few links of chain, andin the case of rifles with very sharp twists in the barrel a swivel maybe added.

The bar is attached to the wire rope by inserting a soldered end of therope within a hole formed in the end of the bar and the bottom of whichis of greater diameter than the mouth. The strands of the wire arecaused to expand within this hole and will be re tained therein by meansof solder. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of thecleaner. Fig. 2 is a view showing the cleaner as made with a brush. Fig.3 is a longitudinal section, on an enlarged scale, illustrating themanner of attaching the wire rope to the short bar.

a is a length of thin flexible wire rope of sufficient rigidity to allowof it being pushed through a rifle-barrel and of a length somewhatgreater than the length of the gun-barrel to be cleaned. A ferrule b,Fig. 1, is attached to one end of the wire rope. Its other end is fixedfirmly to one end of a short bar 0.

This bar is slotted longitudinally, as at d, to

form an eye for holding a cleaning-rag or to provide for the attachmentto the bar of a cleaning device.

The manner of attaching the bar 0 to the wire rope (I. is shown indetail in Fig. 3. A hole is bored in the end of the bar and the mouth ofthe hole is then drawn down, so as to make it of smaller diameter thanthe. hole and of equal diameter to the rope. The bore is partiallyfilled with solder, and the end of the rope which has been solderedbefore cutting is inserted into the bore. Heat is applied until thesolder filling melts and allows the rope to be pushed right into thebore. The heat is continued until the soldering on the rope melts. Thestrands of rope will then by their inherent resiliencv spring outwardtothe sides of the bore. The cooling of the solder fixes the wires inthat position, and the joint cannot be pulled apart cold.

A cleaning-brush may be connected to the bar 0. In Fig. 2 a circularbrush a is shown connected to such bar by means of a few chain-links f.In case of a rifle with a very sharp twist a swivel may be interposed.

The flexible wire rope a will allow for the cleaner being pulled throughthe barrel, so as to clean it.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1; A cleaner for rifles and shotguns con sisting of a length of flexiblewire rope which has sufficient rigidity to allow of it being pushedthrough the barrel of a rifle or shotgun, and to the end of which isrigidly attached a slotted bar adapted to pass freely through the barreland to receive acleaning material, substantially as specified.

/ 2. A cleaner for rifles and shotguns consisting of a flexible wirerope which has sufficient rigidity to allow of its being pushed throughthe barrel of a rifle or shotgun, a slotted bar attached to the end ofsaid rope and adapted to pass freely through the barrel and a brush orother cleaning device secured to the slotted bar by means of links,substantially as specified.

3. A cleaner for rifles and shotguns, consisting of a length of flexiblewire rope, of sufficient rigidity to allow of it being pushed throughthe barrel of a rifle or shotgun, and In testimony whereof I have signedthis a slotted bar attached to such rope by enspecification in thepresence of tWo subscribagement of one end thereof into a bore ingWitnesses.

ormed in the bar of increasing diameter to- BASIL EDWARD SEYMOURSTOOKER. 5 Ward the bottom, and the strands of the Wire Witnesses:

being spread Within the bore and soldered W. ALEXANDER,

therein, substantially as specified. P. R. OLIMIE.

